s.s. 'Mora' - Report of Survey for Repairs, &c. for Mora / Triana - 15th September 1880.

She was surveyed upon the Patent Slipway of the Penarth Ship Building & Shiprepairing Company Limited by Mr. Henry T. Tyrrell. The vessel was an iron screw steamer of 948 Gross Register Tonnage and registered to the Port of Cardiff (later Bilbao, Spain) having been built by Schlesinger, Davis & Company of Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, launched on the 19th March 1877 and completed later the same year.

[© Lloyd's Register Foundation : Unique Reference Code : LRF-PUN-IRON495-0525-R] [760] [20200706]

The vessel was renamed 'Triana' as recorded in the Form of Particulars for Record in Lloyd's Register of British & Foreign Shipping for Triana dated 4th January 1881 reference document [Unique Reference Code : LRF-PUN-IRON495-0524-F]. She was broken up during the first quarter of 1925.

Many thanks to the Tyne Tugs and Tug Builders [800] website for the following excellent information regarding the builders Messrs. Schlesinger, Davis & Company : -

'Charles A Schlesinger was a former apprentice at Robert Stephenson's works at Newcastle and Frederick B Davis had trained at Charles Mitchell's yard at Low Walker. Davis had also worked for Mitchell in India for four years before he partnered with Schlesinger. They opened a yard together in Wallsend in 1863. The yard remained in operation for over 30 years and produced a total of 167 vessels. Davis bought Schlesinger out of the company sometime before 1881. However, in the early 1890s the company started to fail as ship construction declined across the whole country and the yard finally closed in 1893. In 1897 the yard was bought by Swan Hunter for the construction of floating dry docks.'